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April 17, 2008 at 16:30:43

Garbage (The Manifest Destiny of Wage Slaves)

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Garbage
(The Manifest Destiny of Wage Slaves)

We,
LABOR,
are the captive source
of Profit,
which reproduces itself
even while bound pitifully
in plastic credit card chains
and sub-poverty level wages.

We are
outsourced human "resources"
capitalized human "capital"
useless eaters
human weeds
chattel
cattle
contemptible
life unworthy of life
transformed
into simply a cost of doing business
disposable, inanimate objects
commodities
bodies
crammed tightly into railroad cars
hurtling headlong into the economic abattoir
being prepared for us by KBR
via the Zyklon-B of debt.

 

Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).

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Slaves

Tools of the wealthy elite, used to perform tasks that are yet to be mechanized. Subjects to be brainwashed into consuming the goods and services of industry. Borrowing and consuming at an unsustainable rate to feed a growth oriented economy. Competing in a global open border world were a reverse auction of ever lower wages prevail.

What or who will save the masses from this ever increasing dehumanization. Big business will deliver and set them free. How can those obsessed only with ever increasing profits save their souls? By abusing them so much that they no longer believe the lies they have been taught. Lies told and policies set to motivate them to participate in the dehumanization and destruction of a moral conscious with regards to business and the economy.

by Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 208 comments) on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 12:24:24 PM
 

Avid reader, jazz musician, philosopher, chef, stone mason, carpenter, writer, painter, poet,humanist, teacher, holistic ethicist who believes consciousness and love pervade the universe, except among self-obsessed humans. I perceive the philosophical unified field to be consciousness and joy. The entire universe is composed of waves, which we surf by understanding.
martinweissAvid reader, jazz musician, philosopher, chef, stone mason, carpenter, writer, painter, poet,humanist, teacher, holistic ethicist who believes consciousness and love pervade the universe, except among self-obsessed humans. I perceive the philosophical unified field to be consciousness and joy. The entire universe is composed of waves, which we surf by understanding.

Wages

"He who earneth wages filleth a bag with holes."

 

Men in hunter-gatherer societies worked ten hours a week to feed, clothe, and house their families and tribes.

They did not commute bumper to bumper for hours each day. They did not work thirty nine years and get fired without a pension. They did not buy fuel from anyone. They got the best health care available for free.

They could drink the water and eat the fish. There was enough disease-free game to feed them if they did not waste any. But mostly they counted on growing food, which was more reliable.

They lived here for thirty thousand years in mostly small towns, with no industry.

Now we work forty or more years and end up with nothing. We can't live off the land-- it's all poisoned. Besides someone owns all the water, food, energy, etc. It is no longer possible to live on earth without paying someone. They set our wages and they set the rates for our necessities.

We have become enslaved by our own needs. 

We will be lucky to make three hundred, much less thirty thousand. 

by martinweiss (15 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 302 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 11:54:27 PM
 

 

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